It Has Been a Long Way for Dr. Gail Weingast

These days, Dr. Gail Weingast is well known and highly regarded as one of the best radiology specialists in New England and the nation. She can currently be found at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, where she has been for more than two decades. Now the Chief of Ultrasound and Breast Imaging, she has managed to make many improvements in that hospital’s radiology department, transforming it into one of the top departments in the country. Of course, Dr. Gail Weingast’s path to her current position wasn't always a straight line.

In fact, it wasn’t clear at first that medicine would be her calling. Way back in 1969, Gail Weingast attended, Tufts University’s Jackson College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish. While it indicates that she didn’t see medicine as a compulsion at first, something must have changed, since she soon attended the Boston University School of Medicine, which is where she became Gail Weingast MD in 1976. That was but the beginning. Now, she is considered among the top radiologists anywhere.